Seeds like Lifeboats

I preached about lifeboats lately, and since then I imagine the lifeboats shrinking smaller and smaller until they are seeds, until they are the strands of DNA in the seeds that we are leaving as we pass this way. A seed provides not only the information about how to grow, say, a maple tree, but also food that the seed will need while it establishes its first roots and grows its first leaves. A seed has a hard coat that protects and contains the food and the genetic material while it waits for conditions to be right, and a seed has a plan for getting to a good place to live and grow- like the little wings on the maple seed.